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How many ski areas have you seen in person but not skied?

Zand

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Before this year, my list was short with just Sugarloaf and Saddleback (saw them while snowmobiling in ME). It's a bit longer now after some boring days of exploring:

Jay
Bolton
Bretton Woods
Attitash
Wildcat

I've also had to look at Burke, Cannon, and Loon WAY too much this year... time to finally ski.
 

Smellytele

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I have seen and not skied
Stowe (Will ski it this year)
Tenney
Bretton Woods
Suicide Six
Mont St. Anne
Wachuset
Nashoba

Whaleback
NorthStar
Jackson Hole
Some ski hill that you could see right off of Route 90 in NY that I think has since closed
 
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crank

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Mt Tom
Homewood
Aspen
Steamboat
Keystone
Beaver Creek
King
Black
Pat's Peak
Red Mountain
Roundtop
Burke

I forgot there were a few in France: Trois Valleys, La Plagne, La Grave.
 
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jerryg

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Eaton Mountain
Tenney
Suicide Six
Spruce Mountain
Baker Mountain
Kent's Hill
Titcomb
Dartmouth Skiway
Whaleback

Homewood
Diamond Peak
Mt. Rose

Several in Europe

A ton of NELSAPs...
 

abc

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Pratically all the ("major") NH areas: Bretton Woods, Loncohn, Loon, Wildcat, Attitash, Black, Ragged Mountain!

I go hiking in the Whites a lot. So I've driven by all of them. But if I'm to make the long drive up that way in the winter, I'm going (bc) x-c ski instead. Although this maybe the year I'll ski some of them since I just bought the Descente Jacket with several FREE tickets for the NH areas.

Other than that, Burke is the only one I drove by without skiing. And that's because I was there mountain biking!

[EDIT]I totally forgot these: like Burke, I biked Bolton Mountain and Jiminy Peak but never skied either.

[EDIT 2] Forgot another one: Bromley. Seen plenty of time (on the way to Stratton), never tempted.
 
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severine

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Drive bys:
Magic
Bromley
Bretton Woods
Jiminy
Otis Ridge
Woodbury
Loveland

Seen while pregnant and therefore unable to ski:
Stowe
Loon
Cannon (also hiked last Fall while not pregnant)

Seen before learning to ski:
Black (NH)
Wildcat (rode the gondola to the top with our dog to walk around)
 
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Greg

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Windham
West Mountain
Woodbury
Otis Ridge
Bousquet
Mount Tom
Stratton
Bromley
Whiteface
Cannon
Wildcat
Cranmore
Tenney
Sunday River
Attitash
Whaleback
 

WWF-VT

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Recently checked out Bear Creek formerly known as Roundtop in Plymouth, VT. On Thanksgiving Day visited Sundown.
 

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There are a bunch but Whaleback must hold the title for the place I've passed the most without having skied it yet. This year I'm determined to do their "last two hours"/$15 deal some night on my way back from skiing in the northern Greens, legburn be damned.
 

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cannon. looked ok from the road, but was closed. i'm pretty sure it was a sheet of ice.
 

4aprice

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Have skied most of New England except for Maine (only been to my friends place at Sunday River) which is really just too far from the New York Metropolitan area but there are a couple I haven't hit.

Attitash
Black
Cranmore
(I always seem to go to Wildcat when in that area)
West Mt
Ski Hickory
Burke Mt

Out west

Sunlight
Steamboat
Never been down to SW Colorado (Crested, Telluride, Monarch, Durango and Wolf Creek)

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

OMG how could I forget? I haven't skied the Mighty Sundown and I gonna get there soon.
 
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abc

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I didn't list any out of the northeast. Out west, too many to count. (I'm a mountain biker, so there're many mountains I biked but not skied :) ).
 

jaywbigred

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I am not going to count areas of seen from highways or airplanes, only ones I've actually stopped at or seen from up close on an access road:

Haystack (not quite NESLAP?)
Magic (we tried!)
Jackson Hole (soon to be removed from this list)
Grand Targhee
Pico
Buttermilk
a local hill near Bolton Valley...maybe called "Roy's Hill" or something like that?
A community hill near Woodstock, VT
The NESLAP off Route 206 in Peapack, NJ.
 

4aprice

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The NESLAP off Route 206 in Peapack, NJ.

It was called Peapack Ski Area. Is it still skiable? I thought there was a good amount of developement there. My father skied it when he was alive.

Get to Buttermilk sometime. Timber Doodle Glade is a blast. Like I said before when I'm at Aspen and its snowing Buttermilk is the bomb and its almost private.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ
 
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